At the recent triennial congregation of the Tyndale Fellowship this week, the study groups were launched by a group meeting to discuss the Tyndale Fellowship, its purposes and objectives, and how the study groups meet these goals.  John Drane and others were chosen to offer their perspectives on the past, present, and future.  Some expressed an attitude that the original intent of the TF was to bring Evangelicals to the academic table of discussion.  In their opinion, this has been... Read more

Just a couple of days ago, I reached 100,000 hits. This is very exciting for me as I have invested a lot in having good discussions on my blog and providing useful information. Why do I blog? At first, it was almost purely a way of saying ‘There was no one there to tell me how to do this or that when applying for my phd program, so I want to help others’.  Of course, as I have progressed in... Read more

This is my second Tyndale Conference and I had a wonderful time last year.  This year boasts a longer conference and several well-known scholars giving papers including Howard Marshall, Richard Burridge, John Drane, John Nolland, John  Webster, and others.  I go on the last day (Thursday).  I am excited because, since it is such a small conference, the delegates don’t tend to skip sessions – you can bank on about a dozen or more people and hopefully get some decent... Read more

Kevin Scull asks the question: What are 5 personally significant ancient/primary texts? His ‘rules’ are these: 1.) List the 5 primary sources that have most affected your scholarship, thoughts about antiquity, and/or understanding of the NT/OT. 2.) Books from the Bible are off limits unless you really want to list one, I certainly will not chastise you for it. 3.) Finally, choose individual works if you can.  This will be more interesting than listing the entire corpus of Cicero as one... Read more

I was not tagged for the five-books meme (as far as I know), but since my thesis viva (defense) is only a couple of weeks away, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the five most influential books for my thesis (or in my thinking during the writing of my thesis).  This list is in no particular order. 1. Conversion of the Imagination (Richard Hays, Eerdmans, 2005).  Hays is most well-known for his Echoes book (1989),... Read more

For many years Mounce’s Greek textbook has virtually dominated NT Greek instruction in most seminaries (or perhaps in most evangelical seminaries). Despite its popularity, there have been many who have wondered ift does not represent the insights of recent linguistic scholarship.  Who better to write a new textbook?  Stanley Porter, of course.  And he did. I mentioned this in a previous post (on Eerdmans forthcoming books): the book is called Fundamentals of New Testament Greek – due out in late... Read more